The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-17 00:00:00

Muller in Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, Friday Night. Muller has just landed at Liverpool. Anything like the excitement in the neighbourhood of the docks and landing stage has seldom been seen in the great port on the Mersey. Crowds thronged every point, whence a view of the arrival of the Etna could be seen, until after the darkness of the night had rendered it impossible to see anything but the black water which bore the vessel. Then longer waiting was hopeless, and the crowd, instead of being dispersed about the docks, concen treated itself near the landing-stage, which was soon thronged, and many a hundred went away in despair of seeing anything of the arrival of him whom England accuses of the most sensational murder of the day. And they stood patiently—that great crowd waiting for the arrival of the New York steamer, and discussing among themselves the probabilities of the conviction of him who was en board. lam fortunately enabled, by courtesyof Scotland -yard and. Inspector Tanner, to furnish you with a correct version of all the important in cidents in connection with the capture, the voyage, and ;the arrival in Liverpool of Muller. After a rough passage he arrived here at a few minutes before 11 o'clock, and the Inman tender having boarded the Etna, a telegram from Sir R. Mayne was handed to Inspector Tanner. After a short time the prisoner, accompanied by Mr Tanner, stepped from the Etna on board the tender, which was steered for the landing-stage, bet owing to the vast multitudes of people there assembled, and the great excitement that prevailed, it was deemed expedient for the safety of the pri soner to land him at Prince's Pier. This detour, h owev er, was partly anticipated, for as soon as the tender steamed alongside some 500 persons rushed forward with yells, and called out, " Where's Muller ?" All this time Muller stood, to the casual observer, perfectly indifferent, but he was actually not without emotion. He first gazed steadfastly upon the advancing rush of people, then he turned and looked another way, but said nothing. A cab was drawn alongside the landing - stage. and Mr Tanner told Muller to take his arm, This he did, and they proceeded to the cab. This attempt was sufficient to indicate to the crowd that one of the two was Muller, and a tremendous rush was made towards the cab. It was not until after great struggling, in the course of which the cab was nearly overturned, that Muller was forced into the cab and driven away, amid the yells and shouts of the comparatively few who thus waylaid him; while thousands on the landing stage persistently retained their position, refusing to believe that he had gone any other way. Muller did not altogether appear to understand why such a demonstration was made, and upon gaining his seat in the cab he displayed great emotion. With reference to the departure of Muller from New York, as already stated, the feeling of the people was decidedly in favour of Muller, and when Commissioner Newton delivered his decision, and pronounced that the accused should be sent for trial, strong murmurs were rife to the effect that " Muller never should return to England." This put Mr Tanner on the qui vive, and observing so strong a feeling in favour of the accused, he at once foresaw the possibility—nay, the probability— of an attempt at a rescue, This never was probable t xcept from the bounty receivers, who are at all times subservient to the influence of the almighty dollar ; and had Muller possessed money sufficient to pay for a bail they would have made the task of Mr Tanner doubly difficult in securing his charge, as it was this energetic officer had sufficient to con tend with. He had to divert the attention of the people, and with this object he got paragraphs in serted in the New York papers, stating that Muller would be taken to England in the Cunard steamer Chine, which sailed on the 7th, instead of which he had arranged with the Inman Company to provide in their steamer Etna accommoda tion for his prisoner. This the company did, as well as it could be done, inasmueh as while they duly respected the comforts of their ordinary passengers, they took especial care that those of the as yet unconvicted man should not be neglected. They apportioned to his accommodation the hospital of the ship, containing six berths amid ships, not certainly to his sole accommodation, but as well to that of Inspector Kerressy and Sergeant Clark, who throughout the tedious journey never lost sight of their charge. As far as his personal physique goes a stout lad of 18 would be a match for him. He stands about sft. 6in. high, slim built, of light complexion, smooth faced, and certainly of inoffensiee appearance, while his conduct, both in the voyage out and the journey home, has been ex cellent. Until his arrival in Liverpool he has not throughout displayed the least emotion save once, and that was when Inspector Tanner spoke kindly to him when at the police-office in New York, which the inspector mentions in the following rat rative of his journey out and home:— "Wo left Liverpool on July 20. The vessel made a passage of 16 days, during which nothing parti cular happened, except that on the 23d I fell down stairs and hurt my back. I was confined to bed four days, and when we got to New York I was very ill. I placed myself under the care of Dr Quack emboss. On Aug. 5 I stationed Sergeant Clark at Staten Island, about 18 miles from Sandy Hook, a place where there is a telegraph station. I at once put myself in communication, so that I should have a telegram forwarded to me and to Sergeant Clark the instant the Victoria was sighted ; but there, nevertheless, was a difficulty to be got over. The pilots at this point abound in large numbers, and to prevent any of them communicating with Muller when the Victoria arrived, I issued handbills, offer ing a reward of 60 dols. to the first plot who would board the vessel, and privately ask the captain to take steps to prevent Muller leaving, as he was wanted. It took a fortnight to find all the pilots, and thus caution them. About fourteen days after this the Tallahassee made her appearance, and burnt the Adriatic and many other ships. She took also the James Funk, and made her tender, which, being the pilot boat I had previously engaged, created a second difficulty. Inspector Kerressy arrived about a week after this. I then put myself into communication with the police, who rendered me all the assistance possible. The United States Marshal deputed Sergeant Tier• nan, of New York. Detectives and the police were stationed at Staten Island. O❑ the 24th the Victoria► was sighted. The law would not allow Commie■ sinner Newton to grant a warrant till I could make an affidavit that Muller was in American waters. As soon, therefore, as the Victoria was telegraphed I went to New York and made an affidavit to that effect, which was coupled with the attestation of the British consul. Sergeant Tiernan and Sergeant Clark boarded the Victoria. Mr Tiernan told the prisoner that he had a warrant for his apprehension. Muller said, 'Very well,' but was not in the least startled. He was searched, and lls and keys found on him. His box was opened, and a watch was found, end Muller said it was his watch, and that he bought it ot'a man in London Docks, and gave 1.,‘1 15s for it. He said also that he bought the hat in Petticoat-lane. Soon after this Mr Death and myself arrived, and I ordered the prisoner to be kept on board all night. In the morning I took him down with 11 others, and asked Mr Death if he saw any one there who bought the chain. lie said Yes,' and pointed ou t the prisoner. At this time the excitement io York was in tense. There were hundreds of boats around the ship. I then took the prisoner to Mulberry eta- Von. I knew he had had nothing to eat and drink for some time. Up to this moment he appeared per fectly indifferent to what was passing. When he was in the station I asked him if he would have anything. lie replied No.' I tokl him I had a duty to perform, and that I wished to do it kindly, and that he had better have something. He said No, I cann ot eat, ' and burst into tears, and sobbed a.oudior twenty minutes. He afterwards ate some bread anti butter and drank some tea. On the 31st I got the 'warrant. In the meantime prisoner was kept in the Tombs, and I arranged that a prisoner should sleep with him the whole time. On the 3d be was handd over to my custody, and I conveyed hi m in a carriage to the ship, having previously arranged to have the hospital at my dispos3l, 30 that he might be kept away from the saloon Passengers, as well as those of the steerage. We left on Satur day, the 3d. Before this the ship was literally crammed with people eager to see Muller depart: I had put him down below. When I got him on board I told him it was customary to put such pri. aoners in irons, but that I had no desire to do any■ thing to give him unnecessary pain, and if he would promise to subject himself to me, and to remain in that part of the vessel under the officers I had placed over him I would not put him in irons. He was very thankful, and said, I will do anything you please.' On the second day I asked him if he felt sick. He said, ' No; I feel very well, and I like my berth.' He said the diet was very different to what he got on board the Victoria, and told me what was allowed the passengers. He said they had to cook their own dinners, and that it was common for some one to walk off with another's dinner, which seemed to amuse him and caused him to laugh heartily. He said if the passengers on board the Victoria could not swear they would get nothing, but I do not believe from his demeanour since he has been in my custody that he was in the habit of swearing. 1 asked him if I could give him anything to amuse him. He said, I should like something to read.' I lent him the 'Pickwick Papers,' into the spirit of which he entered, and laughed heartily. I have since lent him David Copperfield,' which he is now reading. He has never complained during the whole voyage. He has been in excellent health and apparently enjoyed himself as much as anybody on board. On the day we left New York a German gentleman came on board and asked me to let him have an interview with Muller. I asked him if he was a solicitor. He said he was not. I then told him I could not grant his request,, and asked him his object in wishing to see the prisoner. He said be received a letter from a German society to tell Muller that when he got to England he would be defended, that his case had been put into the hands of Mr Beard, and to caution him not to speak upon the subject of the murder, and that they believed him innocent of the crime. He gave me the letter, which I gave to Muller, He read it and put it in his breast; and sometimes while he is reading a book he will sud denly put it down and read the letter, and then re place it in his breast. Throughout the whole voyage the demeanour of the prisoner has been quiet and entirely indifferent to his position. He has not once referred to the subject, and not above three persons have been allowed to see him." He will leave Liverpool for London this morning early. Railway and Other Companies. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at Glasgow; Sir A. Orr in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders on the increased dividend which the position the company warranted the directors in recommending, also carrying forward a sufficient balance to pay another quarter per cent., which would have made 3 per cent. for the past six months. The principal item of capital expenditure was for locomotive and carrying stock, and this, he thought, was exceedingly satisfactory, being an outlay generally accompanied by more than a compensating increase of receipts. The whole cost of the renewal of way had been charged against revenue. The directors had arranged for the purchase of the Maybolo and Girvan Rail way, in which the company held a large amount of capital. The arrangement was, no doubt, a favourable one for the Girvan shareholders. The directors had also arranged to take up the Bridge of Weir Railway, paying the shareholders the par value of their shares without interest, after the Act authorising the sale had been obtained. The directors had been met by deputations from the Boards of the Castle Douglas and Dumfries, and their other branch railways, and he hoped that matters were in a fair way of allowing those branches to be incorporated with the main line, so as to obviate the expense cf working small branches separately. The Parliamentary committee granted permissive powers to the Caledonian Company to work the Portpatrick line. The Solway and Cumberland Railway, when completed, would greatly facilitate the conveyance of iron ore from Cumber land to Ayrshire, and could not fail to prove beneficial to the South- Western Company. The revenue of the com pany had steadily increased, and they might certainly ex • poet a continuance of that increase in the present prosper ous state of the country ; thus he trusted the directors would be enabled to give the shareholders a larger dividend. The directors would lose no opportunity of making such agree ments with their neighbours as would prevent the un necessary expenditure of capital. Mr LUMSDEN seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. MrMEIICLNM strongly urged the necessity of the company living at peace with its neighbours. He thought the Cale donian could not do better than make an arrangement with the South• Western Company. He objected to Sir J. Fer gusson taking part in the promotion of the Ayr and Dou glas line. The CHAIRMAN agreed with the last speaker as to not interfering with their neighbours. They had considered the necessity of accommodating the district. With regard to the Crofthead and Kilmarnock scheme, they had given in structions to their engineer to survey the ground between Glasgow and Kilmarnock and forward to Ayr, before that scheme was projected. Mr J. M' GATIN said, in regard to the Mayb and Gir van line, that the company were getting a large bargain by taking the line. He believed it would become part of the continuation of the Portpatrick railway. He thought it wrong to lead the Caledonian to suppose that the share holders were inclined to pay too high a price for peace— (hear)—and he did not think it right for Sir J. Ferguson as a director of the Caledonian to have promoted those lines, The engineer was Mr Blyth, and he was also the Caledonian engineer. He suggested the appointment of members from railway boards to form a committee of railway directors to settle any differences that might arise between companies, to see that the country was properly served with railway accommodation, and that all branches necessary for the accommodation of the public should be made, each company being confined within its own district. Mr LUMSDEN said the board were anxious for peace, but at the same time they were not to be overridden. They were desirous of cultivating friendly rela'ions with their neighbours, but t hey looked with great suspicion on aggres sive schemes in their territory. Resolutions were passed adopting the report, declaring a dividend at the rate of 51 per cent per annum on the or dinary and preference shares of the company, and at the rate of 5 per cent per annum on the guaranteed shares. Mr Clouston was elected by the Board, in the room of Mr Brongh, who resigned. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro ceedings. SCOTTISH CENTRAL. The half-yearly meeting took place at Perth on Thurs day, Mr A. Macduff in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, referred to the breakdown of the tripartite agreement be tween this company and the Caledonian and Edinburgh and Glasgow, which he said had come to a teimination through no fault of this company. They could not, he thought, rise from a perusal of the correspondence which led to that result without a feeling of regret that companies which seemed at one time to be so much bound up in each other had now come to be so widely, and he feared perma nently, estranged. Bat the Scottish Central was too strong in its own independence to suffer much from the dissolution even of so greatly cherished a project as the tripartite amal gamation, and the report now laid before the meeting gave the best evidence of its prosperity, namely, a gradual and progressive improvement in every part of their system. On the:present half-year the directors had to report an increase of £7,381 on passenger, and £5,044 on goods traffic, the largest increase they had ever had in any half-year, and they proposed to offer a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, which was larger than the dividend enjoyed by any Scotch line, with the exception of the eix D ewl u e n eee d ekd ee st a hth n ear d et Ahhaardd b elapsed roat h. sinceil e wan tthe e happy hal i to e half-year's ad accounts thaton the e were been an increase in revenue of £4,649, or an average increase of about £744 per week. With regard to the Parliamentat; Session, the Scottish Central had gained all that they de sired both in regard to their own and other companies' bills ; and by agreeing to commute to a axed sum of £5,000 the charge against the North British for use of the Mon crieff-hill tunnel, that company had withdrawn the bill for a new access to Perth. The directors had entered into nego tiations with the promoters of the Callender and Ohm railway which would provide a direct and expeditious route from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dundee to the West High lends; and, taking the most unfavourable view they could of the prospects of the:, line, they were nevertheless prepared to propose that this company should, on certain conditions, subscribe £300,000 of the £570,000 of capital required. Sir A, G. MAITLAND seconded the approval of the report, and the meeting was then made special to pass resolutions to create £120,000 of new stock for station and other improve ments, to empower the directors to raise £40,000 on mort e-age, and to approve of agreer.ents with the Edinburgh and Glasgow for additional facilities, and with the Cried June tion and the Dueb!ane , D o wns , and Ca llender for amalga . motion, at G uaranteed dividends of 5 and 41 per cent. re spectively. FEAKIP6K AND THURLBY. The direcfpis of the Great Northern propose to apply to Parliament next session for powers to construct a line from Peakirk to Thurlby, passing through Market Peeping. TIOR,NC'ASTLE. The report of the directors of this company states that the traffics for the half year ending June 30 amounted to £1,529, being en inc rease o f £256 on t h e reven ue of the correspond ing half of 1833. Including, sundry other receipts, and a balance from last half-year's account, the sum available for dividend is £1,249, out of which the directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 5s per share, absorbing £1,164, and leaving £B5 to be carried forward to the credit of the cur rent half year. INDIAN TRAMWAY. An extraordinary meeting of this company was held yes terday at the office, Moorgate-street, Sir Macdonald Ste phenson in the chair. Mr Scott, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, The CuAnntior said they had to pass a formal resolution under the provisions of the Act, in order to confirm the re solution adopted at the last meeting. He then moved that the following resolution be confirmed :—" Resolved, that the deposits received from persons willing to subscribe to the new capital be returned to them, and that the capital of the company for the present be fixed at a sum not exceed ing £100,000." Mr NORTON seconded the motion, and it was carried unanimously. A Shareholder feared that Sir C. Wood was making the same mess of their undertaking as of the other Indian mat ters referred to in the newspapers. The CHAIRMAN explained that the company had sent two missions to India, and all the minor Governments were quite ready to go into the business with the company, but on their return to England they found the procrastean sys tem was to be adopted. The directors could not help that state of things. There was no doabt it was being carried out in ignorance of the wants of the country. The position of the company was very satisfactory, and they believed the line now making would pay well. They had already lost several years, and they could have made 1,000 miles of tramway while they had been making the 17 miles, The meeting then separated. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Miles Opened. Receipts. Ball Ways. 1864. 1863. 1864. 1863. A 2,355 2.325 75E 807 2,190 1,847 7,479 7,260 20,013 18,017 1,819 1,610 365 315 398 330 209 220 471 476 2,001 1.7u7 477 343 1,465 1.418 1,880 1,715 252 197 3,020 2,761 3,281 2,912 9, •80 8,832 33,361 31,301 37,591 34,349 . I,Ba 7 2,081 566 615 9,052 8,392 72,306 66,741 114 1,617 1,543 2,8;4 1,638 1,613 3,010 125 41,890 37,877 192 178 121 115 727 646 1.13,871 1( 3,541 2,0 . 6 1,910 27,853 25,095 23,489 21,128 8, 49 6, 70 2,315 1,395 19,155 17..120 1,649 1,3:4 1,554 1.329 2,222 1,643 51,419 45,971 5,254 5,109 1,582 1.691 2,704 2,758 Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 Belfast and County Down 49 49 Blyth and Tne 2B 28 Bristol and Exeter l2l} 1211} Caledonian 262k £44i Cambrian Cockermouth & Workington Bi 8i Cork and Bandon 2O 20 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage... 6 1 Cork and Youghal . .... 32k 321 Cornwall 651 531 Deeside l7 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. &Wicklow and Wexld 9ll 51 Furness, &c 5O 5 i Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern 387 351 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 Li t. Northn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 7l 7 1 1 SlLSouthn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3871 3511 Great Western 1205 1158 Hull and Hornsea l3 Inverness & Aberdeen June lO6l 1061 Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 Irish North-Western 145 145 Kent Coast 27 10 Lancashire& Yorkshire 403 3951 Limerick and Ennis... 241 24* Limerick and Foynes 261 261 Llanelly 461 461 London & North Western London and Blackwall 5l 51 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &8. Coast 2671 261 1 London, Chatham, & Dover 721 72* Do. Metropolitan Extension 111 101 Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l 91 Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 641 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 262 2591 Monkland Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 Rhymney l9l Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon ...... 791 South-Eastern 306 Taff Vale 57 Ulster Vale of Clwyd. . lO Vale of Neath 431 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 271 W. Hartlepool II arbr.& RaiL W"haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO Whitchaven Junction l3 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction.— 26 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1851 Detroit and Allilwaukie ISS Dutch Rhenish Eastern Bengal Eastern of France 1135 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1335 Great Central of Belgium 18) Great Indian Peninsula 553 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madras. .. Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant, Northern of Canada Northern of France 607 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5 Paris and Orleans 1614 Pernambuco 771 Royal Danish 69 Scinde.... South Austrian . Southern of France .... 770 Victorian 196 Welland .—... ...... 25 West Flanders 75 W. and N.W. of France 5831 24,675 22,774 1.095 6.5,216 58,131 9 3,178 3,131 252 9,001 8.349 194 953 813 113 6,731 6,251 118 5,7 , 8 6,724 65 951 495 751 4.910 4,157 306 29,371 28,599 67 5,779 5,831 1051 2,360 2.638 10 23J 214 431 2,910 2.551 31 387 450 77 3,507 1.4;4 275 8 5 79 521 4,833 4 872 7 '037 6 8 13 £75 8 . 1 35 917 833 828 12,000 31,699 '279 201 291 185.1 2,107 1,60 185 5,861 5,71 8 108/ 5,581 5,100 110 1302 71,076 61,471 031 2?,715 19,111 1335 2 ,09L 18,264 - 6,031 495 8,101 4,923 134 5,5 7 5,043 79 503 630 3i5 11,351 8,746 447 5,781 4.105 490 19,262 18,368 91 1,733 1,0 , 8 697 61,724 59,373 44 48} 395 368 17 3 153,140 139,',.93 1434 72,813 ;(8,795 77} 6:5 527 69 105 14t'4 59,018 9,131 6SO 35,531 34,105 196 9,3 t-‘ 7,738 25 442 391 75 1,3:32 1,24 960 50,692 56,033 Naval and Military Intelligence. The Royal Sovereign turret ship, Capt. Sherard Osborne, C. 8., now at Portland, has been almost daily under weigh since the Ist September, testing her many novel fittings and accustoming her officers and crew to working her guns and turrets. The ship, from her extraordinary beam of 63ft 4in and her barrel-shaped bottom, tests the turrets to their utmost, and it may be safely said that when they can be worked in such a ship with such ponderous ordinance as her present 12 ton guns, they will work anywhere. The ship never was intended for and never can be a seagoing ship. Some of our contemporaries run away with the idea that Capt. Osborn is testing the sea-going qualities of the Royal Sovereign, whereas he is merely testing the sea-going fighting qualities of the cupolas or turrets. The guns were worked and have been repeatedly fired with the ship rolling 10 and 12 deg. each way in a minute. No ship, it is sup posed, in the service could have cast loose a 100 pounder of five tons under similar circumstances without some serious accident, The 12 ton 150 pounders have now been fired 30 times each, and not a single breeching has been carried away. We know a ship in the Channel Fleet which can not fire a 100 pounder five or six times in a seaway without calling for a fresh breeching. The wooden gun carriages show symptoms of the trial to which they been subjected, and all on board the ship call for iron carriages as well as iron guns and turrets. The unaccountable manner in which the Royal Sovereign was sent away from Portsmouth with out defects and alterations being completed, although the dockyard found time to plaster 40 tons more of wood and iron over the already overladen sides of this ship, has occa sioned great discomfort to all on board during the broken and rainy weather recently experienced, and prevented all .the experiments being carried out which Capts. Osborn and Coles would hare desired. had she been an Admiralty pet, no care or expense would have been spared; as it is, no one, we are told, at Whitehall would break their hearts if the crew of the Royal Sovereign declare her to be every thing that was wretched. The iron-clad frigate Achilles, 20, 1,250-horse power, commissioned at Chatham on Thursday afternoon by Capt. E. W. Vansittart (Jan. 9, 1856), is to have a complement of 705 officers and men, for which number she is to be at once stored. She will be ready to receive her Royal Marines and Marine Artillery on board on Monday next, as soon as the exact detail of her number have been received at head quarters from the Admiralty. The work of fitting the frigate for sea has proceeded very rapidly, during the past few weeks, and there is comparatively little in the way of dock yard fittings remaining to be executed on board. Steam was got up in her boiler a few days since, under the direction of Mr J. Lays, the chief engineer, when the whole of the ma chinery was found to work satisfactorily. As already re ported in The Sun, the bottom of the Achilles has become exceedingly foul from the length of time she has been lying in Chatham harbour, which will necessitate her being docked immediately she reaches Portsmouth. Yesterday Mr E. J. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy, visited Chatham dockyard, and, accompanied by the heads of trio shipbuilding department of the establishment, spent some time in the inspection of the Bellerophon, 14, 4,246 tons, 1,000-horse power, and the Lord Warden, 24, 4,067 tons, 1,006-horse power, ironclad frigates under con struction, and during his visits examined the principal por tions of each vessel, in order to ascertain the progress made, as well as the quality of the work in both frigates. Although only commenced in April last, the Bellerophon has already more than half of the inner portion of her plates fixed in readiness for the course of planking to which will be bolted the Ginch armour-plating. The progress made in the con struction of the Lord Warden is equally satisfactory, most of the teak planking on both her port and starboard sides being completed and waiting the reception of the armour, while the first portion of the inner 11-inch plating is now in course of being fixed, Notwithstanding that the Lord Warden is not so forward as the Lord Clyde, building at Pembroke, which will be ready for launching in the course of the ensuing month, there is no.v no doubt that the Lord Warden will be afloat early in the approaching year, should anything hke the same energy be continued which has l eon displayed in her construction during the past few months. Upwards of 2,000 tons ofit-incb, 5-inch, and 6-inch armour plates for both the Bellerophon and the Lord Warden have been received :11 Chatham dockyard from Miliwall and the Atlas Iron Works, Sheffield, and as the whole of the addi tional machinery for preparing and fitting the plates of the size and weight intended for the two ironclads has been erected at the dockyard, no possible delay will arise in the work of fixing the armour to the sides Of both the frigates as soon as they are ready to receive it. In accordanco with instructions to that effect received at. Chatham from the Controller of the Navy, the workmen employed in the saw mills at Chatham dockyard have dis- continued working extra hours, the demands on the depart• ment for the timber required in the construction of the Lord Warden frigate and the other vessels in hand having very considerably diminished. The favourable report made to the Lords of the Admiralty of the working of the steam traction engines employed by Messrs Aveling and Porter, in conveying the heavy portions of the iron work for the dockyard, from the factory at Strood to Chatham, have induced their Lordships to give directions for one of the traction engines to be provided by the patentees, and used in Chatham dockyard for one month, during which time it will be employed in the heaviest kind of labour, in order to enable the officials of the establish ment to report to the authorities as to its capabilities, and the advantage or otherwise which wuuld result from the general use of steam traction engines in the Govern ment dockyards. As an illustration of the enormous power of these engines it may be mentioned that on Thursday some of the officials of Chatham dockyard were invited by Messrs Aveling and Porter to witness the working of one of the traction engines just completed by them for shipment to Australia to be used in conveying metal ore from the mines to the seaport. The engine in question started away from the factory with a train of waggons at tached, containing a cylinder of several tons weight, just cast for the dockyard extension works, and upwards of 30 tons of coals, the gross weight of the whole being close upon 40 tons. With this weight attached the engine tra versed the streets of Rochester and Chatham without occa sioning the slightest inconvenience to the ordinary traffic, and fiaally ascended Star-hill, which has an incline of 1 in 12, at a speed of between 3 and 4 miles per hour, the same hill being subsequently descended later in the day by the same train with the greatest ease and safety. During the time the engines have been employed in conveying materials from Rochester to Chatham dockyard —a period extending over several months—they have performed their allotted tasks most satisfactorily, and not the slightest accident has occurred, notwithstanding that the public streets have been traversed by them at all hours of day and night. As the result of the various successful experiments and severe tests to which the new patent indented, small palmed anchors, introduced by Capt. Rodger, R.N., have been re cently subjected at Woolwich, it was yester lay announced that an Admiralty order had been received for the reception and issue for service of a number of the anchors, weighing respectively 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, and 75cwt. One of Capt. Rodger's anchors, weighing 30cwt 2qrs 151 b, was yes terday shipped and tatted on board her Majesty's troopship Fox, Staff-Commander T. Pullen, :to be used as a light working bower anchor to supersede the old anchor, weigh ing upwards of 44cwt. The new anchor was tested on Wednesday under the hydraulic press, in the presence of Mr George Turner, the master shipwright of the yard, and other officials, and by Captain Rodger's desire the strain was worked up to the test of an anchor of double its weight, viz.,-61cwt lqr 41b, the proof commencing at Mons, lcwt 3qr 141 b, and gradually increasing to the enormous drag of 49tons ocwt 2qr 141 b. Both arms were subjected to the extreme trial, and on examina tion and measurement no signs of yielding were perceptible, nor the slightest degree of permanent set, the dimensions being precisely as Were the trial. On Thursday the anchor underwent the usual fire test and smithery examination, and was shipped and ordered on the following day for service The metal was proved to be of undeniable quality. The whole of Captain Rodger's anchors, according to the pre sent arrangement, are to be manufactured by the North Field Iron and Steel Company, at Rotherham, in York. shire, who are under a heavy bond to confine themselves exclusively to that species of anchor, to avoid competition or detriment to Captain Rodger's patent. The War Department cutter Helena, Mr Moors, com mander, sailed yesterday from Woolwich, laden with war stores for Portsmouth, among which are a carriage and slide on a new principle, and a 7 inch gun for experiments on board the Excellent. The iron screw ship Defence, 16, Captain A. Phillimore, left Plymouth Sound yesterday, to join tho Channel Squadron in Portland Roads. The sloop Squirrel, 8, left Portsmouth yesterday for a "ruise in the Channel. The hired transport Copenhagen, Capt. Cowie, which left the Thames to embark troops at Dublin for the Cape of Good Hope and Calcutta, put into Plymouth Sound on Thursday evening through stress of weather. Wind south west, blowing strong. The iron screw steamship Warrior, 40, Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, from Gibraltar with invalids for the flagship and the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth, arrived in the Sound yesterday, and took up her station inside the camber of the breakwater. When c ropping her anchor a man fell overboard. The lifeboats were lowered forthwith, and seve ral of flit. crew jumped off the ship to rescue their comrade, who, however, sank immediately, and did not rise again. the United States screw corvette Iroquois, Commander C. H. P. R dgers, anchored in St Helens roads, off Ports mouth, from a cruise in the Channel, and driven in by the strong prevailing S.W. winds. A large number of foreign bound merchantmen have also anchored in. St. Helen's for shelter from tho weather. Major-Gen. Warde, C. 8., yesterday resumed bis half yearly visitation of Woolwich garrLon, and inspected the Coastguard drawn out in the west Equate of the Royal Horse Artillery. The general afterwards visited the bar rack-rooms, 6tc. We are requested to state that the Hon. B. Napier, who passed his ex imination for a naval cadetship of the first class at the Royal Naval College September examination, was a pupil from North Grove House, Southsea, Hants. Police Espionage in Buckinghamshire. At the Backs petty sessions, held at Wycombe last week, George Free, publican, Naphill common, was charged by the police with buying one hare on the 25th of August, he not being licensed to deal in game. Police-constable` Thomas Shrimpton deposed--On the 25th of August I was at the Wheel public-house, Naphill common, which is kept by defendant. Thomas Nash and James Tilbury came to the house and brought with them a sack. They came into the taproom where I was in plain clothes. Nash said to Tilbury, " Is this the man who wants a hare ?" Tilbury said " Yes." Nash then pulled one out of the sack, and held it towards me. I took it in my hand, and said, "What's the price of this ?" I gave 3s for it, and gave it to the defendant's wife to put in the cellar. After that defendant bought one, and paid 2s 6d for it in threepenny bits. On the following day I saw the defendant at the Fox, and he said, "If you keep your counsel nobody can hurt you." Cross-examined by Mr Voules—l have been a police constable for seven years, and a parish constable seven years before that. Of course I am bound to tell tha whole truth—l have told the magistrates the whole of the cir • cumstances. I was dressed in a smock frock and a " billy" hat. I did a little reaping, and received 15s, in all for my work. I was receiving my policeman's wages at the same time. I came from Tring, and had been abut the Common for a fortnight. I was sent for the purpose of detecting an offence against the law. I did not think it my duty to pr„vent the offence in this case. I did not induce the crime. I saw Tilbury on the previous even ing. I did not ask him if he could get a hare for me. Til bury said he knew a man that had some hares, and I then said I should buy one, if there was one to be bought, fur my sister in London, who was unwell. Tilbury did not say he had nothing to do with the hares. I tcld him I should be at breakfast there the next morning, and if one came I should buy it. I bought two hares, but not at the same time. Free had the second hare, and I had the third. I did not give Tilbury any beer to fetch the hare. I do not know that I stood any beer—l was drinking in c tmPanY with ,the others. On one of the previous nights a tramp was there, and wanted to get up a row. He asked, " Who are you?" and I said, "Garibaldi." (Laughter.) I did not ask him to fight me. I was sober. I did not try to get up a row at the house. I recollect Free meeting me at the Fox the day after. Free asked me if I had said anything about it, and I said "No." That was not the truth—l'm not supposed to speak the truth always. I remember work ing with a little man named Bristowe. I did not pull out a straw and twist it up like a snare, and asked him if he knew anything of that. He said he had done a little. I do not know that I said I would get some wire from Wycombe and teach him a littl e more. I h a d b re akfast and dinner w ith him, and paid hi m f or it . I saw on e or two guns in his house. He said t o me on one occas ion, "Here's a covey of of birds lying h ere; I was very ne ar knocking them over on Sunday mor n i ng. " I did no t t e ll him 1 would bea t th e barley and he should knock them over, When Nash said, " Is that the gentleman that wants the hare ?" I said, " Don't be too high, for I'm a hardworking man like your self." I sat down and drank with them. I said I'd only got 4s. and he could h ave a d r i n k o f m y beer. I tied the hare up in my smock. I swear I did not say to the landlord, " You may as well b uy a h are —it's as cheap as butcher's meat," He said t o N as h , H ow m uch for that othe r one, old boy ?" He offered him 2s 6d. I did not do or say anything to induce him to buy it. I do not recollect trying to prevail on Bristowe to go to a pu bli c h o use after hou rs on a Sunda y to get beer. I did say t o hi m , 66 Hew wo uld it be little wire from Wyco m b e t o make a few snares? " to bring a By the Bench—l was sent by order of the Chief Constable to detect crime generally. Some crimes I was particularly sent for. I lived anywhere. Mr Voules, for the defence, contended that all the cir cumstances showed that the policeman had not tried to pre vent the offence, but had positively induced it. The following witnesses were called for the defence : James Tilbury said :—I am a bricklayer, living at Nap hill-common. On the evening of the 24th August I was at the defendant's house, and saw the policeman dressed is a smock frock. I have seen him there several times. He asked me to di ink more than once. He asked me if I knew anyone who had got a hare. I said I had heard a man say that he had got one, He said he h a d a s i s t er i n London who was an in valid, and if he could buy ore he would send it to her. He asked me to get it. I t o ld hi m I did no t dare do it, as I w as on the club. He then said would I tell the man to bring it down in the morning. He treated me and persuaded me to get it brought down. He said he'd be there at nine next morning. At that time I went with Nash, who had brought the hare. Shrimpton was there in the taproom. When he went iu Shrimpton said " Here's some beer, come end drink." I went and drank with him. Nash said, " Is that the gentleman that wants the hare ?" Shrimpton replied, " Gentleman bed—d, a poor hard -working man like yourself," Nash took the hare out of the bag, and Shrimpton said, " What's the price ?" I said, " It's nothing to do with me, that's the master" (meaning Nash). Shrimpton bought one, .and said he should like to buy another. He said to the landlord, " Why don't you buy one ?" He said he couldn't afford it. Shrimpton said, " Why, it's as cheap as butcher's meat." Fred then said to Nash, " What do you want for it ?" That was after he had been urged to buy it by Shrimpton. Free said it was a great deal of money for a little thing, but after a good deal of persuasion he bought one. I was there one night when Shrimpton tried to make a disturbance with a tramp. They fenced in the house and went out to fight. By the Bench—l did not go out to see it, because I didn't want to have a row. I have never killed a head of game. I have never been before the magistrates about game. By Superintendent Hodgkinson—l did not tell the land lord and the company that Nash and I had been to Braden ham, and had caught three hares; nor that we saw Police constable Sworder was watching us, and if I had a stick I should have knocked him down. George Lacy corroborated the last witness. John Bristowe, stone-cutter, Naphill, said—l have been working on Mr Cartwright's premises at Naphill. As we were sitting down having some beer he took out a straw, and twisted it in the shape of a snare, and asked me how I should do it. I said "Not just like that." He then pre tended to go to sleep, I went to cut another piece, A covey of birds came and dropped into the barley. He said, "Get your gun, and have a broadside at them." He said if he brought some wire from Wycombe, he would go with me, and teach me what I did not knew. He went home' with me and when he saw the guns he asked me to go, and he'd beat if I'd shoot. By the Bench—l have beenbefore the bench for trespass ing, but that was 1G years ago. Mr R. Wheeler, the owner of defendant's house, said ha was a well-conducted and respectable man. A testimonial to the same effect was produced, signed by farmers and residents of the neighbourhood. The magistrates intimated that before deciding they would hear the case against the parties for selling the hare. Thomas Nash and James Tilbury were then charged with unlawfully selling game to one Thomas Shrimpton. Nash having absconded, the summons could not be served and the case was heard as against Tilbury. The evidence was the same as already given. After some slight consideration, the Chairman said this case was a most important one to the public as opening the question as to how far the police are justified in disguising themselves for the detection of crime. After hearing evi dence the magistrates were inclined to lean to the opinion that the policeman certainly did exceed his duty in holding cut an inducement to commit the offence. He had been sent by his superior officer for the purpose of detecting crime, and though the police were not engaged to act as game keepers, yet when cases came under their notice they were bound to report them—in the present case the officer in his zeal went beyond the bounds, so as to induce the first de fendant to commit the offence, and the origin of the transac tion was partly at the suggestion of the police. Free did not attempt to move in it till at the constable's suggestion, and although he was indemnified from the consequences, he first set the example of violating the law, and without applying to him any severe remarks, the magistrates did not approve of acts which led parties to commit offences. It was sometimes necessary for policemen to adopt disguises in cases whore all other means to detect crime had failed. Under the circumstances they dismissed both cases, At the same time the bench hoped it would be a caution to both defendants not to do such things in future,—Butler's South Bucks Free Press, The Extraordinary Charge. Last evening, after the ordinary business of the day had been disposed of by the Hon. G. C. Norton at Lambeth Police-court, Mr Edward Hammond and Sarah Allen, his servant, who had been before his worship the previous day, surrendered to their recognizances. It will be recollected that Mr Hammond was charged with a misdemeanour in having kept his wife confined for two years in her bedroom, to the great injury of her health; and that Sarah Allen was charged with having assaulted her mistress. On Mrs Hammond entering the court the improvement in her ap pearance since Thursday was a subject of general remark. i‘lr E. T. E. Besley, of the Home Circuit (and not Mr Beasley, as stated by mistake) appeared, as before, for the prosecution, and Mr Neale for the defence. Mr Besley, addressing the magistrate, said—Sir, at the close of the examination of the unfortunate lady yesterday, which lasted for a considerable time, ono or two questions arose, and a different issue had been raised on the part of the husband, Mr Hammond, that the lady was of unsound mind. I beg, however, to call to the recollection of your worship the opinion you were pleased to express of close rea soning, her unimpaired memory, and the lucid detail in which she gave a narrative of the wrongs she had sustained. Her sanity, however, having bean brought in question, I felt it was my duty, as the adviser of those who have insti tuted these proceedings, to request that they would allow a medical gentleman to see Mrs Hammond. Dr Sewell, now premat, has had a long interview with her, and I will at once place him in the box, in order that you may hear his opinion of the soundness of the unfortunate lady's intellect. Dr Charles Brader Sewell, of 76, Guildford-atreet, Rus sell-square, was then sworn, and described himself as a member of the College of Surgeons and a Doctor of Medi cine of the University of London. Ho had been in practice since IS6I, and since that time had been in the daily habit cf attending. patients. Mr Norton—DJ you mean patients mentally effected ? Witness—Generally. I have not directed my attention entirely to those c tses. By Mr Beslev—Dr Sewell, did you attend Mrs Ham mond yesterday ?—I received a note last night, and saw her this morning. Was7that at the request of;her sister's husband ?—Yes it was at the request of Mr Morgan. How long was the interview you had with Mrs Ham mond ?—About an hour, Did you make an external examination of her body ?—I did. Generally speaking, in what state was her body 2—Very much emaciated, but not unhealthy. That is a relative term. Can you give me some idea ? Have you seen patients as much emaciated P—At the termination of a fever is the nearest I can give to a professional person; but I cannot give any nearer appear ance to a non-professional person than that she was very much emaciated. The muscles showed out very distinctly, showing great emaciation. You have used the expression, "at the end of a fever." What kind of fever ?—A continu - ms fever. Supposing a patient is attacked with fever for some weeks, is that what you mean P—Yes ; I only use it as an illustra tion. Supposing a person was attacked with fever and had to submit to the treatment necessary for several weeks, would a patient in such circumstances be in the same state as Mrs Hammond P—Yes. You are probably aware that it has been proved before the magistrate that Lhe was kept from September, 1862, to May, 1863, in a place called Lanark-house, and then removed to the horn . ) in Ahich she was found yesterday in May, 1863, and during the whole of that time kept locked up in a single room. Is her appearance consistent with that ?—I had no notice of that before I started to see her. My only know edge was what I obtained through the newspapers, and having read that I should say that her ema ciated state does correspond exactly with such a state of things as her having been confined during that time. Mr Norton--Would such a confinement produce such a result ? Witness—Yes. Mr Besley—ls there anything else you would wish to add as regards the external appearance of the patient ? Not with regard to the external appearance. Were her physical powers lowered by the emaciation? Had she the corporeal power of moving about ? That I had no opporl unity of seeing, as she was in bed ; but I saw her moving about just now. There was no necessity for testing any physical power. Now, as to her mental power. Did you converse with her for a length of time ? Yes, I conversed with her during the whole time of my being there. With the view of testing her mental powers P—Yes. Mr Norton—Will you be kind enough to give the result ? —The result was, that I could detect no indication what ever of any want of mental powe r. Her answers were delivered coherently, and nothing indicative of loss of memory or mind presented itself. Mr Norton—Of what order do you consider her intellec tual faculties to be, so far as you have had an opportunity of judging ?—I should say she has intellect of a very high order. By Mr Besley—Would such treatment as has been proved before the magistrate, confining her against her will in a single room for two whole years, without admitting her to take air and exercise, be likely to injure her health, and produce her present wretched appearance P—Yes ; such a state of things would injure anybody. Mr Neale declined to cross-examine this witness. Police -constable John Spinks, 65 L, deposed that on going to serve the warrant on Thursday morning he was accom panied by Mr Morgan, her brother in law, and the solicitor of Mrs. Hammond. On approaching the house ho found the outer gate locked, but got over it, and the solicitor knocked at the front door, but nobody answered it, though ha had seen the female defendant Allen at one of the upstairs win dows. lie at the same time got into the kitchen, and saw Allen aied another woman, Emily Wakeman there. He asked them where Mr Hammond was, and they said in the garden, They all three went there to him, and the solicitor said he wanted to see Mrs Hammond. Mr Hammond said " You cannot see her, for she is in bed." The solicitor said ho was sure he could see her, for he had observed her at the window only a moment before. He was not aware that Mr Hammond made any reply, but ho demanded that he should see Mrs Hammond, and Mr Hammond said "Oh, yes, you may see her." When they got into the room Allen was by the side of the bid, and appeared to be trying to prop her mibtress up by pulling clothes over her. The bedroom was on the ground floor of what appeared to be a wing of the house, and was very meanly furnished. There was a small iron bedstead ; the bed and bedclothes were very old and bad, and much stained. The bedstead appeared to be mended in two or three places, and the smell of the place was most offmsive and loathsome. Air Norton—Did the room seem comfortubly furnished; Witness—No; quite the reverse. The things were of such a description that I would not have them myself if they were given to me. In answer to further questions the witness said that while bringing Mr Hammond to this court in a cab he said, addressing Allen, who was in the vahicle with him, that he put his wife in the room for his own safety ; that he was afraid to live with her, because he found knives under her pillow. He was very glad to get rid of her, for, indepen dently of finding the knives, she had threatened to murder him. He said he had never seen her while she had been in the room, for that he was afraid of her ; that he kept Allen wholly to attend on her; that he was very glad she was gone, as she had been a great trouble to him, and as they had taken her away they might keep her; he should never receive her again. Nothing was elicited in cross-examination. This concluded the examination, and Mr Bosley applied for a summons against Emily Wakeman for the assault on Mrs Hammond, and the case was adjourned to next week, Mr Hammond and his servant being admitted to bail in the interim. It may be added that prior to Dr Sewell leaving the court he was bound over to appear and give evidence against the prisoners at the next Surrey Sessions. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMEB.—The last reports of General Sherman's movements before Atlanta were so confused that they required the explanation now received by the China to be intelligible. The town was stated to be in the possession of the Federal forces, but no thing was known of any assault on the place. It now appears that Atlanta has been abandoned by the Confederate commander, under circumstances which considerably diminish the weight of the blow, if it had been struck sooner, or the town taken by a sudden attack. It has been so long threatened that General Hood has had time to pre• pare for its surrender with the least possible loss. For a period that may be almost reckoned by weeks, the Southerners have probably seen the danger im pending. Atlanta was an important depot of sup lies and stores of all kinds, and, being the point of juncture of four railroads, of which three run east and south, could be drawn upon for materiel by widely separated armies. It was, beyond question, an important position to the Confederates, but per. haps less capable of long defence than Richmond. At all events, the fortune of war has favoured Gee neral Sherman with a success denied to General Grant, despite the enormous sacrifice of life he has incurred during his long campaign. But still this success is qualified. The Federals hoped, and might fairly calculate, that Atlanta would fall into their hands with all its magazines well furnished. But while the defence was protracted, General Hood, who must have had strong reasons for the measure, was removing the supplies of every kind, or destroying all he could not send away. He then blew up the works, and retired from the city,leays ing only 14 cannon to fall into the hands of his op ponents. In w hat direction he has retired and whither he has conveyed his stores is not known. The details of the operation that compelled the abandonment of the town are clearly described. Sherman, whose force was posted to the north of Atlanta on the 30th of August, had probably dis covered that it was not easily assailable from that direction. He therefore made a sweep round it, just as Grant has several times moved in successive curves round Richmond. Sherman's detour brought him by the west side of Atlanta, a little to the south of it. Crossing the line of railroad to West Point, and leaving it 'behind him, he pressed on due east, to Jonesborough, a station on the Macon Railway, a few miles more southward. At Jonesborough the Confederates held some works, from which they were dislodged, after a sharp engagement, attended by considerable loss on both sides. But this advan tage was evident on the side of the Federals, as they were, by the result of the battle, enabled to place their army between Macon and Atlanta, an opera,. tion which seems to have compelled General Hood to the final measure of evacuating the town. On the 2d of September the Federals occupied it, but in a thoroughly dismantled condition. The posses sion of Atlanta is hailed by the North as a great success, and a heavy blow to "the rebellion." An important position has passed into the hands of the Federals, not by a direct attack, but as the result of an engagement in its vicinity. Compared with the great battles of the war, the action at Jonesborough is little more than a skirmish. Yet it has been more decisive in effect than all the fighting and bloodshed of Grant's campaign. President Lincoln once de clared that the great want of his Cabinet was such cess in the prosecution of the war. General Sherman by land, and Admiral Faragut by sea, have obtained something of what the President desired, It is true that Mobile is not taken, but the attack by the Federal fleet contrasts favourably with the attack on Charleston. The cfficial party will make the utmost possible use of the gleam of good fortune. The two events are already turned into political capital in the contest for the Presidency. Mr. Lincoln has recom mended a general thanksgiving in all the churches for the success of the Federal arms, and salutes have been fired from all the navy-yards and arsenals in Federal possession" in honour of the recent victories. One of the salutes, indeed, was not limited to blank cartridge. General Grant cele brated the occupation of Atlanta by " shelling Petersbu-g," with what effect is not stated. Every act and declaration of the Government must now be regarded as an election manoeuvre, whether they waken the pulpits of the churches or the guns of the forts. Mr. Lincoln is under the necessity of doing nothing that might injure his chance of re election. He could not have enforced his own pro clamation, calling for a draught of 500,000 men, without coming into collision with that portion of the population which must have furnished it. We are not, therefore, in the slightest degree surprised to learn that the levy of men which was to have commenced on the sth inst. has been " postponed." It is more likely the measure has been given up as impossible to put in execution. Further time is given for " filling the quotas by volunteering." It is being discovered that the different States have already large " credits" for men enlisted. New York is especially lucky, though for many weeks past the journals of all parties have commented on the visible reluctance of the people to enter the service. The number of men due to the ranks in the city of New York is somehow reduced to the low figure of 1,114 men. If the statement is correct, the number is scarcely sufficient to feed one hour of one of Grant's battles. Still better is another dis covery, announced by Mr. Seward in what is evi dently an electioneering speech. He declares that no - draught will be necessary, " as the armies are being recruited as rapidly as required by volunteer ing." The tactics of the great political campaign will justify almost anything in the eyes of Americans. [hey do not esk for an explanation of the most in. credible statement, provided it " tells" for the ob ject of their party. But Mr. Seward's declaration cannot be reconciled with the manifestations of public opinion during the weeks that have elapsed since the call for hundreds of thousands of men, without whom the war could not be continued. We have heard one unvarying tale of the general reluc tance to enlist. The highest bounties offered by the Central Government, the several States, the city cor porations, and private societies, had not influence enough to draw men into the ranks. The recruiting in Europe, and the attempts to raise more black regiments, confirm the reports of the difficulty. We have heard of no revival of enthusiasm to account for the sudden change of feeling that must have taken place if Mr Seward's statement is correct. If the call for 500,000 men was not necessary, it was impolitic to make it. It is quite possible that the forced levy may still be necessary, but its impolicy has been discovered. Ever since the proclamation was issued the Government has endeavoured to abate the public apprehensions on the subject. It was found that the convenient " credits" of the States would reduce the total force required to 300,000 men, Then these States were said not to be so much in arrear with their quotas as was supposed. Now the draught is postponed, with an official assurance that it will not be necessary at all. But that 300,000 men, or any considerable fraction of that number, have voluntarily enlisted since the date of the Pre sident's proclamation we cannot believe. In the same speech Mr Seward asserted that the salvation of the Union depended on the reelection of Mr Lincoln. It depends a good deal, we think, on the will of the Southern States, whoever may be Presi• dent of the North. The only possible end of such an obstinate conflict must be a compromise. In 1860, before the actual war broke out, Mr Seward, in answer to the question " Who can save the Union ?" declared the Union " would be saved by no one in particular," Ho probably meant that it was too firmly established to require individual advocacy or defence, It was a political system strong enough to save itself. Now it depends on the destiny of Mr Lincoln. But as the first prediction has been falsified so may the last. Another declaration made by Mr Liecolu's Foreign Minister is more credible, and in dicates that the extreme Abolitionists of the Repub lican party may now be thrown over and defied. Mr Seward says, " Slavery is no longer an issue of the war, and will not be interfered with after peace is restored." This reads like an appeal to the moderate section who exhibit an inclination to coalesce with the Democrats. But, whatever may be the Republican policy, if the election gives the party another lease of power, it is satisfactory to find Mr. Seward speaking of the restoration of peace as possible. We should rejoice to see it openly avowed as the chief object of both sides iu the political conflict. POST.—From the accounts received by last mail it appears that the war in New Zealand continues to be carried on with an activity and bitter n as un abated, with but little more of conclusiveness as re garde results, and on the part of the natives with hopes considerably raised and confidence ranch augmented by the victory which they obtained in the conflict of the Gate Pah, by the unhappy Luis' conduct, to use the mildest expression, of one of our own regiments, who however, we are glad to learn, have done much in their last engagement to remove the stigma to which their disgraceful panic on the former occasion had subjected them. Still, the state of things is very unsatisfactory. The action is described as hard fought and hardly won, nor does it appear that it has brought us any nearer the termination of the war. It is only in this condi tion that hostilities are said to be suspended till the spring. They are not concluded, and the colonial papers seem to rest their hope of conclusion mainly upon the probability of the local Government being able between now and then, to put an end to war by pacificatory steps or conciliatory measures. It is singular, and as unsatisfactory as it is remarkable , that notwithstanding the lessons we might have learnt, one would have thought, in the old Amerif can wars, notwithstanding our more recent eD penances in our long and frequent campaign s with the Keffirs, we have made no visible advance or improvement in our modes of carrying ca war with savages in uncleared countries. It is essential, with savage peoples, to impress them most absolutely with a sense of our power, and it is especially important that our movements should be indicative of a settled purpose from which nothing will turn us; that our blows should be rapid, strong, and decisive. There has bees nothing of this either in our policy or in its adall' a nistration. We have sent insufficient bodies 01 troops against forces numerically large and consist,. ing of men physically strong, resolute, well armed , and possessing a considerabis natural aptitude for war. The consequence is, that when we gain victory we do it hardly and with but little to spare; and that we do not seldom fail in our object, eau sometimes are positively defeated. What ought to be a short, decisive campaign, thus degenerates into a war dragging a weary length along through a series of unsatisfactory conflicts, which damage° our prestige, giving the native population a very erroneous idea of our real power and resources, and takes a great deal of money out of our pocket s ' with comparatively small results in exchange for the expenditure. We sow a good deal in the aggregate, but we sow the seed in driblets, and we naturally reap a very small and unsatisfactory harvest. This defective mode of conducting our wars arises partly from the unfortunate circumstanc e that we have never been able to make up our min& as to the principle upon which our colonial admini 4 stration ought to be conducted, and more particular' , " upon the very important question of the amount of aid and protection which it is right or politic tha t the Mother Country should afford to her dependete cies. Oar opinions and our conduct on this pcia t are for ever in a state of fluctuation. Sometime we blow hot, sometimes we blow cold; now w e assure a colony that it cannot walk without " go-cart" prJvided by the Parent State ; then w e repudiate all claims to assistance, vow the colon); has attained to years of discretion, or is a secon d Minerva issuing forth at once all-armed and ail wise, and button up our pockets with a look el grim determination against responsibility and 1 00 ,g bills. We do these things alternately, to the beWi o dement of nation and colonists, placing sometimes one and sometimes the other in ascendancy ; or We da worse—we adopt and carry out a policy of conl: promise—a very favourite way of getting throng!: a diffi2ulty with representative Governments --ac' we send to the colony an insufficient assistanc e ' under pretest. We despatch a handful of troop s ' jest enough to keep the war alive, but quite incouv patent to bring it rapidly to an issue of such absolute success as to make pacification conclusive, and to render the superiority of the European race a m atter of universal and proverbial recognition. Thus hal l we been acting in New Zealand. Indecision is Parliament, absence of interest and lack of kncf: e ledge in the country, produced half action on t U A part of the Executive. Driblets of soldiers, loon; insufficient, reinforced from time to time with oth er driblets, supplies with reluctance, and a sort of i t. a; definite hope, like Sir Anthony Absolute's in t R ,, play, that " perhaps the fire would go out of itself , have, after a series of struggles very inglorious' ' expensive in valuable life and costly in outlay money, landed us on a sort of debatable land, whe t we may talk of victory without being contradict ed I perhaps, but from which we may certainly eee vista of new contests in the distance. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—FRIDAY. There was a fair attendance of millers and dealers to- OtO • uirl and we have to report rather a better consumptive lug x . for wheat, at about Id per cental decline on the vice t Flour very unsaleable, and nearly 6d per barrel and sac down since last Friday. Oats and oatmeal were stencil,: Beans, peas, and barley unchanged in price, but not s" saleable. Indian corn is still offered freely, and must /36 quoted Cid per qr cheaper. STAMFORD—FRIDAY. The supply of wheat at to•day's market was lirnitA and sales took place at about the previous week's pricen' —White wheat, 42s o 438; red, 39e to 40s per 36 a tone : Barley, malting, 32s to 363; grinding, 33s to 30$ per g a r Oats, 22s to 263 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to ^ -45 P qr.; new, 42s to 455. WAKEFIELD—FnIDIY. The demand for wheat was slow to-day, and the price:: last week declined is for old and is to 2s for neW sof New barley is cheaper. Averages for the week : Wheat 712 qrs., at . 45s 9d Oats Barley.... . 160 Peas Beans LINCOLN. White wheat new, 42s to 476 Red do. 39s to 43s Old white 42s to 4713 Red do. 39s to 43s Barley, raalting 32s to 3bs —FRIDAY. IBarley, grinding .28 s to 30 0 Oats,:old, New do 20s to 210 Beans.. 38$ to 436 1 Beans, new --s to C ORK-THURSDAY. • The following were the quotations this morning - -Rea wheat, 8s Od to 8s 6d ; white, 8s 3d to 9s Od , barleYi to Id to Os Od ; oats, 5s 10d to Os 3d ; black do., 58 Os 63 Od ; here, Os 10d. BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. t The sales of this week have been very small, and a er further decline of 6d to is per cwt. Refined is again 1 0 and slow of sale. Rum in good demand at full prices, COAL MARKET. Prime of Coal per Ton at the dose of the market. ( 1, s. d. s a. Eden Main ..12 0 Walls End. . 9 East Hartlepool ...... 2v 6 Soutlifiartlepool—.... 2o 6 ...... 6 Caseop ..... 20 22 ; sold, 22, Walls End. . Harton 19 6 Hetton 21 0 Ships at market Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Sep i• lg• via Marseilles Oct. 1 . . icirazil and Cape Verds , by British packet. Oct. - 1. Cape of Good H o pe, ascension, and St. llelena Sept' g. China, Penang, and Singapore, via S o uthampton Sept. ci. via Marseilles SepC . ' 4 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Sept. - t 1 0 ' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..SeP-',/. via Marseilles.... Sept. ;9, India (Bombay), via Southampton Sept. nn . via Marseilles Sept. -1 J" . Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Sept. ' 0 via Marseilles Sept . A , Newfoundland ..Sept.''' Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Sept. by U.S. packet.... 23' by Canadian pack e t, Sept. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I t. 2 91 California. and British Columbia. Sep t. 2 8 ' _.• Births. CLOWES.—On the 10th inst., at Torworth, Notts, the An t°/3. Mrs. Leigh Clowes, of a son. g r. ELLIS.—On the 15th i ns t., at Ri c h mon d, th e w if e o f F. Ellis, of a son. ROTIISCHILD.—On the 14th inst., at Paris, the Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, of a son. . 0 ores STANSFORTH.—On the 15th inst., in Westbourne--. 1 the Baroness Stansforth, of a scn. Marriages. iOt CUTLET;,—FRIEDLA NDER,—On the 15th inst., at rbr 0 , church, Lancaster-gate, John Cutler, of Lincoln's,i ii a. barrister. at-law, to Louisa, eldest daughte r of the 1 "" E. A. Friedlander, of Clapham-common. Leff Hoc All. r—BAWTREE —On the 14th i ns t , a t Colch oB ,t, the Hon. Horace Miles Hobart, Capt a i n 103 d Regiler n a. Royal Bombay Fusiliers, seventh son o f th e Right Pv t is the Earl of Buckinghamshire, to Gertrude, the W ell daughter of George Bawtree, Esq., of Colchester. Deaths. r.aTef CANE.-0a the 14th inst., at Chi s wi c k, Mi ss C ec ilia t daughter of the late Z ac h ar i a h C ave, E sq. , o f els Smithfield, aged 82. CHADWICK.—On the 12th i ns t.. a t B urn h am, Son sett ie r A Frederic Richard Chadwick, Esq., M.R.C.S., ,• aged 51. 0, e tb JEFFREYS.—On the 13th inst., at the Rectory' 'a - a : a Thoresby, Lincolnshi re , th e 11ev. Matthew Jeffre,l o ) u 50. O tto LEO, —On the 12th inst., at St, Leonard's-on-Sea, - Felix Leo, aged 28. WHITE.—On th e 15th i ns t., a t Hale Farm, St. Ni eL t il if lr : Isle of Th ano t, Mr. John White, late of 1100116— Middlesex, aged 83. London : Printed and Prtviished by WILLIAM ANI:t .F3 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Taz SuN Office ' lsr 124 Strand, in the Precinct of the lavoy, , n the Vdt ll3 411441 e0ex: — b'aturdaY, September 17,18 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1864.